I have waited a while to share this, to see if anything would come out of it in the end, but nothing has yet so I guess it is time to share
A few months ago, I was working on my boat trailer one evening (wasn't dark yet). I was lying underneath the boat and trailer, when I heard footsteps on the gravel in the driveway next to me. For reference, the driveway is about 50 yards long to get around to the back of the house, where I was. You can see this area from the road, because there are no trees. I am startled, so I start crawling out from underneath the back of the trailer to find someone standing there looking at various items. As I am crawling out, he realizes there is someone down there with him and looks my direction. As I stand up I ask him if there is anything I can help him with. He doesn't reply right away, and I start to come around the boat and face him. His eyes immediately shift to my waist where my firearm is clearly visible, and then looks at me startled and he says, "Oh". He asks if a certain item is for sale, and I then ask him if he sees a for sale sign on it. He says no. I do not reply, and he starts to back up rather quickly and says, "Ok", and walks briskly back up the driveway where, unknown to me at the time, there were 3 individuals waiting for him, 2 outside the vehicle and one in the driver's seat. He says something to them (I am too far away to hear them), and those 2 individuals get in the vehicle quickly before he gets there. He is almost jogging at this point (with his pants falling down, rather funny) and gets in the car (which had been turned around and was facing the road before I ever saw this individual) and they leave.
Now, I was rather stunned by the encounter. I was seriously asking myself, once they left, if that had really happened how I thought it went down. The guy's behavior was odd and just gave me a bad feeling during the whole situation. I hadn't posted this before simply because I wanted to see if they ever came back, or if I had a break-in or any items missing. It is not common for someone I do not know to walk down the driveway, especially when they don't know I am down there (I had been under the boat for at least 30 minutes, and there is no way anyone could have seen me from the road). All I know is that I am glad I was OCing my firearm at the time, which before this incident, I would usually take off when working on stuff. My opinion prior to this incident was I still had my pepper spray in my pocket, and what are honestly the chances of something happening? I don't think like that anymore.
Now I realize that I could be mistaken in my beliefs about what was actually going on. However, my gut feeling at the time was not good (which is probably why I had my hand on the spray when I got up). At least nothing bad came out of it. Flame away
A few months ago, I was working on my boat trailer one evening (wasn't dark yet). I was lying underneath the boat and trailer, when I heard footsteps on the gravel in the driveway next to me. For reference, the driveway is about 50 yards long to get around to the back of the house, where I was. You can see this area from the road, because there are no trees. I am startled, so I start crawling out from underneath the back of the trailer to find someone standing there looking at various items. As I am crawling out, he realizes there is someone down there with him and looks my direction. As I stand up I ask him if there is anything I can help him with. He doesn't reply right away, and I start to come around the boat and face him. His eyes immediately shift to my waist where my firearm is clearly visible, and then looks at me startled and he says, "Oh". He asks if a certain item is for sale, and I then ask him if he sees a for sale sign on it. He says no. I do not reply, and he starts to back up rather quickly and says, "Ok", and walks briskly back up the driveway where, unknown to me at the time, there were 3 individuals waiting for him, 2 outside the vehicle and one in the driver's seat. He says something to them (I am too far away to hear them), and those 2 individuals get in the vehicle quickly before he gets there. He is almost jogging at this point (with his pants falling down, rather funny) and gets in the car (which had been turned around and was facing the road before I ever saw this individual) and they leave.
Now, I was rather stunned by the encounter. I was seriously asking myself, once they left, if that had really happened how I thought it went down. The guy's behavior was odd and just gave me a bad feeling during the whole situation. I hadn't posted this before simply because I wanted to see if they ever came back, or if I had a break-in or any items missing. It is not common for someone I do not know to walk down the driveway, especially when they don't know I am down there (I had been under the boat for at least 30 minutes, and there is no way anyone could have seen me from the road). All I know is that I am glad I was OCing my firearm at the time, which before this incident, I would usually take off when working on stuff. My opinion prior to this incident was I still had my pepper spray in my pocket, and what are honestly the chances of something happening? I don't think like that anymore.
Now I realize that I could be mistaken in my beliefs about what was actually going on. However, my gut feeling at the time was not good (which is probably why I had my hand on the spray when I got up). At least nothing bad came out of it. Flame away
